Blog excerpt

Beaver Builder
1

Hi guys,
I am using the blog widget (or whatever you call it) on the frontpage of my website. Is there any way to limit the numbers of characters in the excerpt?

175-200 characters would be ideal for me.

Thanks in advance!

2

Hey Thomas,

Thanks for posting! You should be able to by placing this on your theme’s function.php file(preferably in a child theme).

function custom_excerpt_length( $length ) {
  return 20;
}
add_filter( 'excerpt_length', 'custom_excerpt_length', 999 );

Can be found on the Codex - https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_excerpt

Ben

3

Thanks Ben. It´s working as intended.
One last question. How to change the font size of the blog module? There are no option like in many of the other modules.

4

Hi Thomas,

That all depends on the type of layout you have set for the Posts module. Can you shoot us a link with the page in question so we can get some CSS together for you?

Thanks!
Justin

5

Thanks for the swift reply Justin.

You find the site at http://friskyttarna.eu and it´s the little news blog below the top image. I did however temporarely replace the blog module with the Genesis featured post widget because of the size of the fonts. But if it´s a must for you to help me, i will ofcourse put it back.

Thanks in advance!
Thomas

6

The blog module is up and running again: http://friskyttarna.eu/

Thanks in advance for the help!

Best regards
Thomas

7

Hey Thomas,

Try the CSS snippet below and see if they work for you!

/* Change Blog Grid title font size */
.fl-post-grid .fl-post-grid-text .fl-post-grid-title {
  font-size: 20px;
}
/* Change Blog Grid excerpt font size */
.fl-post-grid .fl-post-grid-text .fl-post-grid-content p {
  font-size: 20px;
}

Ben

8

Perfect.
Many thanks for the help.
It´s much appricated.

9

Awesome! Have fun with BB! :slight_smile:

Ben